Cedar Bay Cherry (species: Eugenia reinwardtiana cf.) in ALA: Lizard Island (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Eugenia reinwardtiana cf.
Cedar Bay Cherry


©Anne Hoggett: Eugenia reinwardtiana cf. near the vehicle track behind One Tree Coconut Beach, Lizard Island. Photos of this record were identified as "probably Jossinia reinwardtiana" by Dr. Jean-Yves Hiro Meyer (Délégation à la Recherche de la Polynésie française, Tahiti) in Sep 2023.

©Anne Hoggett: Leaf of Eugenia reinwardtiana cf.near the vehicle track behind One Tree Coconut Beach, Lizard Island. Photos of this record were identified as "probably Jossinia reinwardtiana" by Dr. Jean-Yves Hiro Meyer (Délégation à la Recherche de la Polynésie française, Tahiti) in Sep 2023.

©Anne Hoggett: Eugenia reinwardtiana cf. near the vehicle track behind One Tree Coconut Beach, Lizard Island. Photos of this record were identified as "probably Jossinia reinwardtiana" by Dr. Jean-Yves Hiro Meyer (Délégation à la Recherche de la Polynésie française, Tahiti) in Sep 2023.

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Kingdom Plantae
Division Tracheophyta
Class Magnoliopsida
Order Myrtales
Family Myrtaceae
Genus Eugenia
Species Eugenia reinwardtiana cf.

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Lizard Island Field Guide

Distinguishing features

A shrub with glossy, quite thick, almost circular, opposite leaves. Oil drops visible within the leaf with a lens. Bark fissured. Globular fruit more than 1 cm diameter turns red when ripe, edible.

An iNaturalist record (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153943119) looks very much like the Lizard Island photos. Observer Russell Cumming (former Principal Botanist at the Queensland Herbarium) notes in his iNaturalist record: "This is a very common taxon around Townsville and the greater region. It is substantially different to the real E. reinwardtiana and needs to be described as a separate species."

Size

  • Size data has not been obtained.

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

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References

  • Byrnes, N.B., S.L. Everist, S.T. Reynolds, A. Specht and R.L. Specht (1977). The vegetation of Lizard Island, North Queensland, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 88: 1-15. LIRS catalog number 3.
  • De Sloover, J.R. and M. Dufrene (1999). Flora and vegetation of Turtell V, Turtell Islands Group (Queensland, Australia), Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg./ Bull. Nat. Plantentuin Belg., 67: 45-97. LIRS catalog number 577.
  • De Sloover, J.R. and A.-L. Jacquemart (2008). Nymph Island (Great Barrier Reef, Qld., Australia): Flora and vegetation of a low wooded island, Scripta Botanica Belgica, 43: 1-88. LIRS catalog number 1210.